Give Me The Shits

I'm back on Ozempic as it did keep my blood sugars in the correct range previously. High blood sugar probably had something to do with the heart thing in July, so...

But the bowel problems have started again. Grrr!

The surgeon who did my colonoscopy says it is constipation caused by the Ozempic, a common side effect, apparently, and I have to take constipation meds, which I have been taking since Tuesday when I started taking Ozempic again, and here it is 3 days later and nothing. Zip. Nada. Oh, a couple of slivers, which I have had to work hard to get out, risking an aneurysm kind of difficult, but nothing really. Still practically just a vacuum, not the sucking kind, no chuckle, as in the airless kind.

15.01.2025

Okay, so I was being far too timid with everything, the story of my life really. If I'd been far less timid with my professional life, writing life, share market life, my life would be completely different by now, not that I want it to be different, to tell you the truth, kind of happy with how it is, but you get my point... however, I digress.

So, I had to read all the instructions again, er, um, read them for the first time, let's be honest, and I realised I can up my dose 3 fold - of everything - to make it all work. Cross your fingers.

16.01.2025

Okay, I went to see my nice pharmacist in Brunswick Street to see if he had any alternatives I could try, to get it all back on the normal shit show. And while he couldn't offer me an alternative, he did tell me I could double up doses at the same time. And that I was doing the right thing, with shit meds, fibre meds and hugely increased water intake. Okay, good to know.

17.01.2025

I have tripled my fibre treatment, by reading the instructions, who'd have thought.

So it is, continue with what I am doing and don't be afraid to dose up.

And it is working, kind off. At least it now feels like something is happening down there, and not like before when there was just nothing, nothing at all, you know, zip, niente. (blow your cheeks out as far as you can keeping you mouth closed and that's how it felt before, trying to take a dump) It's a little bit, but at least it is something. There is movement. Something is happening. Worms.

The diarrhoea hasn't eventuated. And I can fart with confidence. And it is kind of back to normal, kind of, sort of, an improvement on what I did have.

18.01.2025

Anyway, as much as you all wanted to know all of that, I must go and drink some more water.

Yeah, sure, there is the weight loss aspect to this, it does take your appetite away quite considerably. And I have lost some weight, 7, or 8 kilos, and that's good, but it is a hard way to lose kilos, with the side effects. I reckon, and I wouldn't take it if I didn't have a medical reason. In fact, if the above doesn't get better, or sort itself out, I'm considering stopping it. I wouldn't, probably, choose to do it, as such.